My personal opinion and experience is the save / setup piece definitely hurts adoption, but use-case less so.
Coming from a non-technical, Windows background, if I was running TiddlyWiki, I'd develop my landing page towards: - Web first: Start with a sign-up to get you into a TiddlySpot (or similar) site in as few clicks as possible. Other options below in "local / other hosting options" - Web or Desktop: Side by side have the above option on one side, and Desktop (link downloads TiddlyDesktop) on the other side - since some users won't be looking for a web option (privacy etc.) Other options below in "other hosting options". Frankly, although I don't think either of those are the absolute "best" of the options, (although I use and love TiddlySpot, I use SharePoint .aspx and BOB exclusively) but I think they're the "best bang for the buck" in terms of simplest, and most like other things that end-users are used to - again at least other non-technical Windows users like me. I find that when showing people TiddlyWiki the first time, it's *harder* to get them to open one and make sure it saves, than to show them the basics of it working. That's... not good. As far as "many ways to use", when I sell others at my company on TiddlyWiki, and they ask what it does, what it's for, I usually explain it's "like Excel for text". I use that analogy because Excel is extremely popular, and also commonly used / misused for *everything*, there's not really a right / wrong way to use it, and part of it's value is it's flexibility. If I'm being honest, the other two biggest hurdles when getting my co-workers on the bandwagon are: 1. Name: I have hard time getting people over the TiddlyWiki name unfortunately - it doesn't bother me, but when I'm talking to executives I either get laughs, or I lie about it's name. 2. Look / Layout: Because it looks so different from other software / web software my co-workers get confused as to how it works. Note that the "Material Theme" out there helps because it kind of makes it look like SharePoint to some degree - more business friendly. Not that I think SharePoint is very good looking, but it's one barrier removed. In fact I'll sometimes now get "it kind of works like SharePoint, but much faster" which helps. Anyways, I love the tool and the community, just want to throw out other perspectives. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/49277489-2cc7-418f-adf9-8bed4f1e8f90%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
